Rock cut temple (see it on a map)
built by Hatshepsut (about 1479/1473-1458/57
BC) and dedicated to the lion headed goddess Pakhet. The temple is well-known
in Egyptology for the inscription in which Hatshepsut presents herself as
restoring Egypt after previous turmoil, including the opposition of the Hyksos
(even though they ruled northern Egypt a century earlier than her reign).